Tomorrow is election day. Since I think it's important to educate our kids about the important things--like comic books!--we're having a little election party with some friends to eat snacks and watch the returns. So I've got a refrigerator full of finger Jell-O (red, white and blue), plenty of Chex mix made by the fourteen-year-old (she'll be eligible to vote in the next election, speaking of things that make me feel old), and tortilla chips and salsa (wanted red and blue chips but couldn't find any red so we've just got blue and regular). Also making some no-bake cookies because, well, sugar.
I've got black-and-white outline electoral college vote maps for the kids to color in red and blue as the results come in, and we'll have some sort of board up so they can add the numbers. I am hoping they won't have to be up too late to have some idea of who's won before they go to bed, but in any case I think this will give them some idea of just how it all works. And, at least for the nine-year-old, it seems to have given her the sense that the election is something to be excited about, something really important. She's very much looking forward to tomorrow night, and made a point of picking out red, white and blue to wear to school.
I've tried to emphasize, in talking with her, that neither of the candidates is bad. That they're both good men and they both genuinely feel that their ideas are best for the country, and that good people support both candidates for good reasons. It's a matter of whose ideas you agree with. (I wish some of the other parents of kids at her school had done likewise, but that's a rant for another time.)
Anyway, I'm going to go make those cookies, and then I'm going to open this month's box of comics and sit down and read a few, and forget about politics for a little while. And be reminded that, no matter how bad things may seem, at least we don't have to worry about Skrulls or the Anti-Life Equation. I think.
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